Cordially Closed Polly & Jean Cordials, Wallingford I apologize to Polly & Jean. I apologize for never writing a page about your cold-soaked cordials when you were still in the business of cold-soaking fruit into cordials. Now, I'm not pretending that my doing so would have helped the business at all. I'm merely … [Read more...]
Westford Hill Distillers
Eau-de-Wheeeeeeee! Westford Hill Distillers, Ashford June 7, 2013 Westford Hill is internationally renowned and yet it's fairly likely you've never heard of them. Westford Hill is on Chatey Road in Ashford and is owned and operated by Louis and Margaret Chatey and I'm pretty sure you don't live on a road named … [Read more...]
Onyx Spirits (Closed)
BACDAFUCUP Onyx Spirits Company, East Hartford January 2016 2019 Update: Onyx closed this location in May 2018 with stated plans of reopening “somewhere.” As of May 2019, Onyx had updated their website and stated they planned to re-open in a still-unannounced town in mid-summer of 2019. But in September 2019, one … [Read more...]
Waypoint Spirits
Point the Way to the Booze Waypoint Spirits, Bloomfield August 7, 2015 Waypoint ceased operations in early 2019, but will be opening under new ownership in 2021 at some point. So basically, everything below is about Old Waypoint. Did you know this is the very first post I’ve written about a distillery in … [Read more...]
Food & Drink
Restaurants, Foods, Diners, Taverns, Ice Cream, Cheese, Chocolate, Breweries, Brewpubs, Cideries, Kombucheries, Wineries, Meaderies, Distilleries, & Soda Makers This page now serves as a fairly robust jumping off point for the many food and drink sections of CTMQ. The state has maintained some culinary “trails” over … [Read more...]
Distilleries
Hootchy Cootchy Connecticut Distilleries & Spirits Producers I am not a big booze drinker. I go months on end without touching hard alcohol. But... here we are, on my page listing all of Connecticut's distilleries and spirits producers. Granted, there aren't that many and of those, very few actually have a … [Read more...]